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Dec 2020
10:01am, 29 Dec 2020
47,911 posts
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McGoohan
As chozz by Little Nemo, the first book of Phase Five of our chozzes.
Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo.
'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN
'[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES
'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential . . . If you've ever tweeted "All Lives Matter", someone needs to shove Kindred into your hand, and quickly' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE
'I've decided not to write anything glib here' McGoohan.
Instead, pour out your thoughtings below.
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Dec 2020
10:07am, 29 Dec 2020
47,913 posts
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McGoohan
Some one star reviews:
Susan Nordquist
1.0 out of 5 stars too much like back to the future
Reviewed in the United States on 6 May 2016
Verified Purchase
didn't .. too much like back to the future...
Egan
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on 4 May 2017
Verified Purchase
This book was never downloaded on my Kindle app
and
Mike
1.0 out of 5 stars Poor metadata from publisher
Reviewed in the United States on 4 April 2009
Verified Purchase
This item cost $9.75. For an eBook at that price, you would think that the publisher would have the common decency to create metadata with the correct Author Name. This publisher, however, has very sloppily created metadata which lists the author (for Kindle sorting purposes) under her first name rather than her last name. And, since the book is an AZW1 file (the "dreaded Topaz" format), it is impossible to correct this sloppy publisher metadata using mobi2mobi.
For that reason, I have given the eBook the lowest possible "star" rating. Note that I am not criticizing the actual literary content of the book, and the author obviously should not be faulted (since she's been dead for a couple of years). The fault is entirely the publisher's.
Idiots.
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Jan 2021
1:19pm, 4 Jan 2021
29,602 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
Are you allowed to rate the ratings? That's Meta.
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Jan 2021
3:10pm, 8 Jan 2021
44,220 posts
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LindsD
Ooh, am I first? I don't think that's ever happened.
I loved this. It reminded me of The Time Traveler's Wife, which is one of my favourite books (though obvs written ages after). I found the set-up really easy to follow, and wanted to know what happened next. The characters were well-drawn and mostly believable and the idea of seeing a culture of a specific time from the pov of a future time, though obviously not original, worked really well. If I have to criticise, sometimes the writing was a bit clunky, and I think there could have been more focus on Kevin and Dana's relationship - he was a bit sketchily drawn. I would have liked to have known more about what he did in the five years he was in the past without her. But these are minor criticisms. I really enjoyed it, and gave it an 8.
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Jan 2021
3:13pm, 8 Jan 2021
36,957 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
One Star Reviews - that's a whole thread in itself. Gosh there are some corkers out there!  G
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Jan 2021
3:39pm, 8 Jan 2021
48,054 posts
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McGoohan
I made the mistake of reading Linds' review before I'd finished! Ooops.
Happy - each month, I collect at least one 1-star review and make them a part of the poll for that month's book. There was a corker on November's one HHhH: "This is the Spongebob Squarepants of historical novels" They went on to add "I don't know what that means, I just wanted to say it in a review."
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Jan 2021
7:28pm, 8 Jan 2021
44,223 posts
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LindsD
Ooops!
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Jan 2021
11:20pm, 9 Jan 2021
17,625 posts
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northernslowcoach
Just finished it
Read in a day
Like Linds said it reminded me of the time travellers wife, also one of my favourite books
It opened my eyes to the actual daily life of living on an estate with slave labour and the shock of seeing it from the current* perspective (*and some things have not moved on from the seventies)
I also was interested in how Kevin had survived for those 5 years and would have liked more detail
Its a book I would never have come across without the book club so thank you Little Nemo
Its an 8/10 from me
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Jan 2021
12:00am, 10 Jan 2021
48,065 posts
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McGoohan
I have just finished too. Just sat here and read 150 pages in one sitting. But I need to go to bed now.
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Jan 2021
6:27am, 10 Jan 2021
2,797 posts
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Minnie Mad
I've asked my sister, whose a librarian, to get me a copy. It'll be here soon. 😀
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